SBTRKT announces first album in over eight years with new single "Waiting"

"Waiting" featuring Teezo Touchdown is SBTRKT's first outing of 2023, following his December's LEILAH collaboration "FORWARD". Both songs will appear on his upcoming third album.

SBTRKT says of the track: "I’m always listening to and looking out for new music - and came across a song of Teezo’s "I’m Just A Fan" - in Oct 21 - by serendipity he was heading to London the next week so we connected in person. In some ways - although personal to Teezo too - it perfectly vocalised everything I had been going through.

"It therefore felt like the most obvious song to then lead into my album with. Musically its an expansion on my previous records - with a purposefully wider and more layered sound. All instruments on this song and the album played, recorded, produced and mixed by me."

The new single is accompanied by news of SBTRKT's first studio album in over eight years, The Rat Road, which will follow his 2016 surprise project SAVE YOURSELF, and his 2014 album Wonder Where We Land.

He says of his third album: "This album has been my most sonically ambitious record to create – following my own musical path - which isn’t based on others’ perceptions of what SBTRKT should be.

"The Rat Road title is a play on the concept of ‘the rat race’. It’s partly based on my own challenging experiences within the music industry and life generally - though I realised the idea is not isolated from a much wider feeling of exhaustion – definitely true here in the UK with little sense of respite from ever increasing costs/ decreasing opportunity / and a bold divide and conquer mentality. There is the juxtaposition in the record between determination and hopelessness."